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Ezekiel’s vision ‘The Valley of Dry Bones”. Source: loswl / CC BY-SA 2.0.
17 June, 2019 - 23:00 Dr. Eran Elhaik

Resurrecting the Ancient Israelites From the Valley of Dry Bones

The Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones prophecy is one of the most powerful prophecies of the prophet Ezekiel . In this vision, Ezekiel finds himself in a valley full of dry human bones of Israelite...
The new find city gate is thought to be centuries older than this previously existing gate at Bethsaida. Source: CC BY 3.0
7 June, 2019 - 19:12 Ed Whelan

City Gate From the Time of King David Unearthed In Miracle Village

Archaeologists have announced an amazing discovery - they have found an ancient city gate that dates to the time of King David , perhaps the greatest of all the rulers of ancient Israel. This find...
Mosaic of the Byzantine Emperor Isaac I Komnenos
27 March, 2019 - 17:50 Ed Whelan

Shock Findings In Ancient Garbage Mound Indicate Byzantine Empire Was In Major Decline BEFORE the Rise of Islam

Major archaeological discoveries can take place in the most unlikely places. In Israel, experts have made a very important discovery after an investigation of an ancient garbage dump. The abrupt way...
1,600-Year-Old Mosaic with Rare Blessing Inscription Gives Insight into the Samaritans
3 March, 2019 - 02:01 Ed Whelan

1,600-Year-Old Mosaic with Rare Blessing Inscription Gives Insight into the Samaritans

A rare inscription spelled out in a tile mosaic was found in the ruins of a 1,600-year-old estate that belonged to a wealthy Samaritan, at Zur Natan in central Israel. This find is helping experts to...
Jezebel
26 February, 2019 - 20:39 margaretmoose

Jezebel: Slander of The Queen of Israel, Virgin of Baal, Princess of Tyre

Jezebel - even to this day, the name of the wife of King Ahab is synonymous with wickedness and promiscuity. She was the most depraved of women, a murderess, an adulteress and worst of all an...
The Templar’s Tunnel (olegmayorov / Adobe Stock)
6 February, 2019 - 18:45 dhwty

The Templar Tunnel: Knight’s Strategic Passageway Was Lost for 700 Years

The Templar Tunnel is an underground passageway located in the city of Acre, in what is now Israel. This tunnel was built by the Knights Templar when the city was under the rule of the Kingdom of...
Left: The clay horse head from the Hellenistic period. Right: The Iron Age clay horse head
26 January, 2019 - 01:52 Ed Whelan

Riders On The Storm: Ancient Clay Horse Heads Emerge After Heavy Rain In Israel

Many important archaeological finds are a result of chance events and good fortune. In Israel, two clay horses’ heads which once were part of equine sculptures have been found by sheer luck. They...
Roman busts found in an ancient cemetery outside the old city of Beit She'an, Israel
1 January, 2019 - 18:14 Ed Whelan

Woman Spots Stone Head Poking Out of the Ground in Israel and Discovers Two 1700-Year-Old Statues

A woman walking through a cemetery in northern Israel has made a very important discovery. After heavy rains had washed away top soil, she chanced upon the top of a stone head, which turned out to be...
The rare hoard, which includes Christian coins, has been linked to "one of the most dramatic events in the history of Caesarea."
5 December, 2018 - 13:55 Ed Whelan

Rare Gold ‘Christian Coins’ Shed Light on the Story of a Crusader Massacre in Ancient Caesarea

Many archaeological finds cannot be linked to one particular dramatic event. However, the recent discovery of a hoard of coins can be linked to one very significant event in the era of the Crusades,...
Vipera palaestinae, Israel, the same species seen at the Western Wall
3 November, 2018 - 22:13 ancient-origins

The End of The World is Here if Snake Appearing in Israel's Western Wall is Symbolic of Ancient Biblical Prophecy

We had all better get ourselves prepared for a very big day in next year’s calendar, if a snake seen scaring away a pigeon between the ancient stones of Israel’s Western Wall is indeed, as some are...
Oldest brewery with traces of oldest beer found in Israel.
14 September, 2018 - 14:04 ancient-origins

Nomads Set Up the World’s Oldest Brewery in Israel 13,000-years-ago

A new study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports suggests beer brewing practices existed in the Eastern Mediterranean over five millennia before the earliest known evidence,...
Israeli town of Yavneh
5 September, 2018 - 16:47 Joanna Gillan

Israeli town of Yavneh had thriving drug culture 3,000 years ago

Archaeologists discovered traces of hallucinogenic substances used over 3,000 years by the Philistines living in ancient Yavneh, Israel, revealing a drug culture that is believed to have revolved...
King David in Prayer by Pieter de Grebber, circa 1600–1652/1653.
5 July, 2018 - 18:53 ancient-origins

In the Footsteps of King David: Stories of Love, War, and Bravery

Beneath the tranquil pastoral green landscapes of the Sorek and Elah valleys lies a dramatic story about the region in ancient times. Draining the western slopes of the Jerusalem Hills, the two...
Two of the jugs excavated from the hard to reach cave on the Israeli/Lebanon boarder.
4 July, 2018 - 18:55 ashley cowie

Remote Israeli Cave Holds A Potted Mystery

Two ancient jars dated to over 2000-years-old are mystifying archaeologists, as they were lowered down an “almost totally inaccessible... sheer 30 meter cliff-face” and stashed inside a tiny cave in...
5,000-year-old musical scene found on pottery in Israel
26 June, 2018 - 02:45 Robin Whitlock

5,000-year-old musical scene found on pottery in Israel may reflect sacred marriage ritual

Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority working at Bet Ha-‘Emeq have discovered a shard from an early Bronze Age storage vessel depicting scenes from what seems to be a ‘sacred marriage...
: Human teeth from Qesem Cave. Credit: Prof. Israel Hershkovitz, Tel Aviv University
19 June, 2018 - 17:49 aprilholloway

Ancient teeth reveal evidence of 400,000 year-old manmade pollution in Israel

A multi-national team of researchers found the first known case of manmade pollution in a cave in Israel. The evidence was found in the hardened dental plaque of 400,000-year-old teeth, which had...

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